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Here's what you need to know about meteorites, asteroids, comets and more

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Meteors, meteorites, comets, asteroids and comets are some of the most common names for the various space rocks out there.

Most are what’s known as chondrites, which, at over 4.5 billion years old, are the most primitive and pristine rocks in the Solar System .

At the other end of the spectrum, there are the iron meteorites rich in iron or, often, iron-nickel compounds, sometimes with traces of sulfide and carbide minerals.

The Imilac meteorite is a slice from one of the world's largest specimens of its kind.

It is thought to have been part of a much larger meteor that weighed up to 1,000 kilograms [ 2,200 pounds ] and exploded over the Atacama Desert in northern Chile , possibly in the fourteenth century .

It will be on display at the Natural History Museum in London .

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